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Community Organizations Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development
Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development
Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development
Acronym
RCMRD
Intergovernmental or Multilateral organization
Website

Location

Nairobi
Kenya
Working languages
English

The Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) is an intergovernmental organization and currently has 20 Contracting Member States in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region. Their mission is to strengthen the member States and our stakeholders’ capacity through Generation, Application and Dissemination of Geo-information and Allied Technologies for sustainable development.

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Catalyzing the Land Data Ecosystem

Conference Papers & Reports
June, 2019
Africa
Eastern Africa
Kenya
South Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda

There is no doubt that the Global Data Revolution has reached the land sector. Government data portals, open access academic journals, community mapping initiatives and other citizen-generated data - there is a palpable positive drive across the world that allows processes such as data collection to be more inclusive and open. But within this data momentum, there are still many barriers and questions: Who can access the data, and how? What data is reliable? Who owns the data? What data is up to date? Can I use the data without inflicting harm?